When Your Body Betrays You: Medical Gaslighting and Women’s Health
What happens when you know something is wrong, but no one believes you?
There is a specific kind of betrayal that happens when your body is screaming and the people trained to listen dismiss you.
It’s not just pain. It’s not just fear. It’s the slow erosion of trust in yourself.
This is medical gaslighting.
And for women, it is painfully common.
Why I Wrote This Book
For a long time, I didn’t think I would write this book. At the beginning it wasn’t even a thought that I would have something to write, something to share.
This isn’t a book about fixing yourself.
It’s a book about listening to yourself.
Postpartum OCD & Anxiety
For nine months you hear the same promises on repeat:
“Enjoy the peace and quiet while you can.”
“Once the baby’s here, everything will make sense.”
“You’ll feel nothing but love.”
“You’ll bounce back in no time.”
“Everything you’re feeling is normal. You are just overthinking.”
However, before I ever became a mother, my mind and body had already survived two events that rewired me from the inside out.
Survival
Wednesday, May 29, 2019: I was twenty-seven years old when my life was suddenly split in two; life before the ruptured brain aneurysm and life after. At the time of the rupture I was unaware that this was happening. A quiet moment I didn’t have words for. A period of my life I struggle to remember clearly. A rupture inside my own head so silent that I didn’t understand I was crossing a line I could never uncross.